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SUSE: 2018:3480-1 Moderate: New wpa_supplicant Security Fix Released

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE announces a crucial update for wpa_supplicant, focusing on security vulnerabilities and essential patches.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has 5 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for wpa_supplicant provides the following fixes: This security issues was fixe: - CVE-2018-14526: Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key messages was not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range of the Access Point and client could have abused the vulnerability to recover sensitive information (bsc#1104205) These non-security issues were fixed: - Fix reading private key passwords from the configuration file. (bsc#1099835) - Enable PWD as EAP method. This allows for password-based authentication, which is easier to setup than most of the other methods, and is used by the Eduroam network. (bsc#1109209) - compile eapol_test binary to allow testing via radius proxy and server (note: this does not match CONFIG_EAPOL_TEST which sets -Werror and

References

#1080798 #1098854 #1099835 #1104205 #1109209

#1111873

Cross- CVE-2018-14526

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14526.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1080798

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1098854

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099835

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109209

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111873

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3480-1
Rating: moderate

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